The Trump Files

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nitro, Jul 25, 2016.

  1. For seven and a half years their leaders failed them , the deplorabes now want Obama to give them jobs.
     
    #351     Sep 16, 2016
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    #354     Sep 17, 2016
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    #355     Sep 17, 2016
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    Trump’s ties to an informant and FBI agent reveal his mode of operation

    Donald Trump listened skeptically as his labor consultant bragged in early 1981 about connections to New York’s underworld.

    Daniel Sullivan, who dealt with labor problems at Trump’s construction sites, was a 42-year-old giant of a man with great charm and a criminal record. He told Trump he was tight not only with leaders of unions, some of them fronts for the mob, but also with the FBI.

    Trump was dubious.

    “He was . . . a big storyteller,” Trump recently told The Washington Post. “He portrayed himself to be the closest person on earth to the FBI.”

    It turned out Sullivan was telling the truth. One day in April 1981, he walked into Trump’s Manhattan office with two men in suits. They were FBI agents, and they wanted to talk to Trump about organized crime.

    Trump welcomed them in....

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    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump’s-ties-to-an-informant-and-fbi-agent-reveal-his-mode-of-operation/ar-BBweClQ?li=BBnb7Kz
     
    #356     Sep 18, 2016
  6. A CNN/ORC poll this month found that by a margin of 15 percentage points, voters thought Donald Trump was “more honest and trustworthy” than Hillary Clinton. Let’s be frank: This public perception is completely at odds with all evidence.

    On the PolitiFact website, 13 percent of Clinton’s statements that were checked were rated “false” or “pants on fire,” compared with 53 percent of Trump’s. Conversely, half of Clinton’s are rated “true” or “mostly true” compared to 15 percent of Trump statements.

    Clearly, Clinton shades the truth — yet there’s no comparison with Trump.

    I’m not sure that journalism bears responsibility, but this does raise the thorny issue of false equivalence, which has been hotly debated among journalists this campaign. Here’s the question: Is it journalistic malpractice to quote each side and leave it to readers to reach their own conclusions, even if one side seems to fabricate facts or make ludicrous comments?

    President Obama weighed in this week, saying that “we can’t afford to act as if there’s some equivalence here.”

    I’m wary of grand conclusions about false equivalence from 30,000 feet. But at the grass roots of a campaign, I think we can do better at signaling that one side is a clown.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/o...ecommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
     
    #357     Sep 18, 2016


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    #358     Sep 18, 2016
  8. nitro

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    Trump's empire built with father's network, and nearly $900 million in tax breaks

    By Charles V. Bagli
    18 Hours AgoThe New York Times

    Donald J. Trump tells it, his first solo project as a real estate developer, the conversion of a faded railroad hotel on 42nd Street into the sleek, 30-story Grand Hyatt, was a triumph from the very beginning.

    The hotel, Mr. Trump bragged in “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 best seller, “was a hit from the first day. Gross operating profits now exceed $30 million a year.”

    But that book, and numerous interviews over the years, make little mention of a crucial factor in getting the hotel built: an extraordinary 40-year tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes, with four years still to run, on a property that cost only $120 million to build in 1980.

    The project set the pattern for Mr. Trump’s New York career: He used his father’s, and, later, his own, extensive political connections, and relied on a huge amount of assistance from the government and taxpayers in the form of tax breaks, grants and incentives to benefit the 15 buildings at the core of his Manhattan real estate empire.

    Since then, Mr. Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York, according to city tax, housing and finance records. The subsidies helped him lower his own costs and sell apartments at higher prices because of their reduced taxes.

    Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has made clear over the course of his campaign how proud he is that “as a businessman I want to pay as little tax as possible.”
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    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/17/new-...onnections-and-885-million-in-tax-breaks.html
     
    #359     Sep 18, 2016
  9. This is why he is not releasing tax returns. He hasn't paid any. He has however left a trail of bankrupt business owners holding the bag.

    He really is the poster child for the most despicable aspects of capitalism.
     
    #360     Sep 18, 2016